Drying the laundry

Without a clothesline, hanging the laundry contemplatively becomes a bit difficult. So it’s great that Aaron recently put down some poles with lines in a meditative way, so that this monastic tradition can now also be practiced here with inspired attention.

Who does not honor the ordinary…

Look at the new man

Anyone who fears that man as we now think of himself will perish is right, for the simple reason that he has not been given that right to exist. It is not ‘designed’ that way. (Read more here)

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soft powers

Never out of date: ‘The soft forces will certainly win’ * The soft powers will surely win in the end — this I hear like

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detachment

Monk’s work described in one word: detachment. Dying to self is at the heart of the spiritual journey. Read here what the Franciscan friar Richard Rohr has to say about it.

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